Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-26

to withdraw from general sale and lease
one-half of the state school lands, situat-
ed within FIVE miles of the Pecos river, on
either side thereof, for distance of one
hundred miles down the general course
of said river from the point thereon where
said river enters the state of Texas, on
the boundary line between the state of
Texas and the territory of New Mexico.
Sec. .. that the state of Texas will sell
to the Pecos River Irrigation Company
the west half of each section of said state
school lands situated within five miles of
the river the sides or sides on which said
irrigating bitches are constructed and
One-half of the remnant of public do
main, If any, which has not been section
lied, from the point where said bitches
or canals are to be taken out OF said
river to the point where the said canals
are to be completed, for the considera-
! tor, and in the manner and upon the
terms and conditions hereinafter pro-
vided.
Sec. 8. The said Pecos River Irrigation
Company of Texas shall construct or
cause to be constructed, and put IN opera
ton within two years from the passage
OF this act, an irrigating caual or ditch of
the second class, as described in article
299l, chapter ., title 80, of the Revised
Statutes; and in every respect in accord
ance with the laws of Texas, now IN force
regarding irrigating canals and bitches,
from the most practicable point on the
line of said Pecos river, south of the
New Mexico line, to g point on said river
about 100 miles down the valley of the
said river. SAID lrrigatlng canal or ditch
shall be constructed as nearly as practi
al INy,, of itnh
all of the irrigable state school lands con-
tiguous to said canals or bitches may be
irrigated therefrom.
Sec. 4. When said Pecos River Irriga-
tion Company shall have constructed and
put in operation section of five miles
ins length of said irrigating ditch, and
shall make report thereof to the Cover
nor, he shall appoint a competent engi-
neer, to inspect, survey and examine said
canal or ditch, and report whether or not
the said canal or ditch has been con-
J structed in the manner, and is of the
/ capacity prescribed as of the second
class; and the Governor having received
said report and being satisfied with the
same, shall thereupon direct said engi-
neer to divide each section of the school
lands within the five mile reservation, as
! by line parallel and at right angles
VITA the original Inns of the sur
veys, and the said Irrigation Company
shall have the west or westerly half Of
each of said sections, the other
or the east or easterly half shall be and
remain to the state school land or the
purchaser thereof; and the said west or
westerly half of each of said sections shall
be sold and titled to said Pecos River
Irrigation Company, at the price and for
the consideration of 81 per acre, on q
credit of thirty years, together with
interest at per cent. per annum, interest
payable annually. Said Irrigation
Company, however, shall have the right
at any time to pay the whole of the pur-
chase price, and have final title issued to
the land so paid for; and said engineer
shall also make report in detail of the sew
eral allotments of land, including the
remnants of public domain, with the field
notes thereof to the Governor, who shall
certify the same to the Commissioner OF
the General Land Office.
Sec. ). The Commissioner of the Gen
eral Land ONCE upon the filing and veri-
fication of the correctness of the field notes
in his Office shall cause the same to be
plated upon the maps of said office, and
. shall issue contracts to the Irrigation
Company and take the notes of the said
company for the amount of the purchase
money for the lands that have been al
|. lotted to said company, as heretofore
: provided.
Sec. g. The portions of said sections
which shall remain to the school lands
shall thereafter not be leased, but shall
!, be sold to actual settlers only, at a fixed
price, in lots of not more than 100 acres
to the head of a family, and not more
than eighty acres to each single person,
for 81 per acre, and on the terms now
| regulating the sale Of school lands to &C,
tual settlers.
Sec. I. For each succeeding section OF
five miles of said canal so constructed
and put in operation by said PeCOs River
Irrigation Company, it shall receive the
land set apart, same as provided for in
section I, and so on consecutively for the
whole length of said canals or bitches SO
completed.
Sec. :. The surveyor or engineer shall
be entitled to and shall receive for his
services such compensation as may be
agreed upon with said Irrigation Com,
pany not to exceed the amount of fees
Eallowed the district surveyor for like
/ services, which shall be paid by the said
4 Irrigation Company.
Sec - That this act take effect and be
in force from and after its passage.
Sec. TO- Emergency clause.
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